Oregon Statutes 419A.260 – Expunction; definitions
(1) As used in ORS § 419A.260 to 419A.271:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 419A.260
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Court: means the juvenile court. See Oregon Statutes 419A.004
- Department: means the Department of Human Services. See Oregon Statutes 419A.004
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Juvenile court: means the court having jurisdiction of juvenile matters in the several counties of this state. See Oregon Statutes 419A.004
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Parent: means the biological or adoptive mother and the legal parent of the child, ward, youth or adjudicated youth. See Oregon Statutes 419A.004
- Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Records: means any information in written form, pictures, photographs, charts, graphs, recordings or documents pertaining to a case. See Oregon Statutes 419A.004
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
- Ward: means a person within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court under ORS § 419B. See Oregon Statutes 419A.004
- Youth: means a person under 18 years of age who is alleged to have committed an act that is a violation, or, if done by an adult would constitute a violation, of a law or ordinance of the United States or a state, county or city. See Oregon Statutes 419A.004
(a) ‘Contact’ means any instance in which a person‘s act or behavior, or alleged act or behavior, which could result in a referral to a juvenile department or a juvenile court‘s assumption of jurisdiction under ORS § 419B.100 (1)(a) to (c) and (f) or 419C.005 comes to the attention of an agency specified in paragraph (d) of this subsection.
(b) ‘Expunction’ means:
(A) The removal by destruction of a judgment or order related to a contact and all records and references associated with a subject person;
(B) The removal by sealing of a judgment or order related to a contact and all records and references associated with a subject person;
(C) The removal by redaction of a subject person’s name and all personal identifiers and all references to the subject person within a record; or
(D) If a record is kept by the Department of Human Services the department’s affixing to the front of the file containing the record a stamp or statement identifying the name of the individual, the date of expunction and instruction that no further reference may be made to the record that is subject to the expunction notice or order.
(c) ‘Person’ includes a person under 18 years of age.
(d) ‘Record’ includes a fingerprint or photograph file, report, exhibit or other material which contains information relating to a person’s contact with any law enforcement agency, juvenile court or juvenile department, the Psychiatric Security Review Board, the Department of Human Services, the Oregon Youth Authority or the Oregon Health Authority and is kept manually, through the use of electronic data processing equipment, or by any other means by a law enforcement or public investigative agency, a juvenile court or juvenile department or an agency of the State of Oregon. ‘Record’ does not include:
(A) A transcript of a student’s Youth Corrections Education Program academic record;
(B) Material on file with a public agency which is necessary for obtaining federal financial participation regarding financial assistance or services on behalf of a person who has had a contact;
(C) Records kept or disseminated by the Department of Transportation, State Marine Board and State Fish and Wildlife Commission pursuant to juvenile or adult order or recommendation;
(D) Police and court records related to an order of waiver where the matter is still pending in the adult court or on appeal therefrom, or to any disposition as an adult pursuant to such order;
(E) Records related to a support obligation;
(F) Medical records other than those related to a finding of responsible except for insanity under ORS § 419C.411;
(G) Records of a proposed or adjudicated termination of parental rights and adoptions;
(H) Any law enforcement record of a person who currently does not qualify for expunction or of current investigations or cases waived to the adult court;
(I) Records and case reports of the Oregon Supreme Court and the Oregon Court of Appeals;
(J) Any records in cases under ORS § 419C.005 in which a juvenile court found a person to be within the jurisdiction of the court based upon the person’s commission of an act which if done by an adult would constitute one of the following offenses:
(i) Aggravated murder under ORS § 163.095;
(ii) Murder in any degree under ORS § 163.107 or 163.115;
(iii) Attempt, solicitation or conspiracy to commit murder in any degree or aggravated murder;
(iv) Manslaughter in the first degree under ORS § 163.118;
(v) Manslaughter in the second degree under ORS § 163.125;
(vi) Criminally negligent homicide under ORS § 163.145;
(vii) Assault in the first degree under ORS § 163.185;
(viii) Criminal mistreatment in the first degree under ORS § 163.205;
(ix) Kidnapping in the first degree under ORS § 163.235;
(x) Rape in the third degree under ORS § 163.355;
(xi) Rape in the second degree under ORS § 163.365;
(xii) Rape in the first degree under ORS § 163.375;
(xiii) Sodomy in the third degree under ORS § 163.385;
(xiv) Sodomy in the second degree under ORS § 163.395;
(xv) Sodomy in the first degree under ORS § 163.405;
(xvi) Unlawful sexual penetration in the second degree under ORS § 163.408;
(xvii) Unlawful sexual penetration in the first degree under ORS § 163.411;
(xviii) Sexual abuse in the third degree under ORS § 163.415;
(xix) Sexual abuse in the second degree under ORS § 163.425;
(xx) Sexual abuse in the first degree under ORS § 163.427;
(xxi) Promoting prostitution under ORS § 167.012;
(xxii) Compelling prostitution under ORS § 167.017;
(xxiii) Aggravated driving while suspended or revoked under ORS § 163.196;
(xxiv) Aggravated vehicular homicide under ORS § 163.149; or
(xxv) An attempt to commit a crime listed in this subparagraph other than manslaughter in the second degree and criminally negligent homicide;
(K) Blood samples, buccal samples and other physical evidence and identification information obtained, stored or maintained by the Department of State Police under authority of ORS § 137.076, 181A.155 or 419C.473;
(L) Records maintained in the Law Enforcement Data System under ORS § 163A.035; or
(M) Records of a law enforcement agency or public investigative agency concerning an open or otherwise unresolved investigation.
(e) ‘Termination’ means:
(A) For a person who is the subject of a record kept by a juvenile court or juvenile department, the final disposition of a case by informal means, by a decision not to place the person on probation or make the person a ward of the court after the person has been found to be within the court’s jurisdiction or by a discontinuance of probation, of the court’s wardship or of the jurisdiction of the Psychiatric Security Review Board, the Oregon Health Authority or the Department of Human Services.
(B) For a person who is the subject of a record kept by a law enforcement or public investigative agency, a juvenile court or juvenile department or an agency of the State of Oregon, the final disposition of the person’s most recent contact with a law enforcement agency.
(2) The juvenile court or juvenile department shall make reasonable effort to provide written notice to a child who is within the court’s jurisdiction under ORS § 419B.100 (1)(a) to (c) and (f) or to a youth who is within the court’s jurisdiction under ORS § 419C.005, and to the child’s or youth’s parent, of the procedures for expunction of a record, the right to and procedure to access counsel under this chapter, the legal effect of an expunction order and the procedures for seeking relief from the duty to report as a sex offender provided under ORS § 163A.130, at the following times:
(a) At any dispositional hearing or at the time of entering into a formal accountability agreement;
(b) At the time of termination;
(c) Upon notice to the subject of an expunction pending pursuant to application of a juvenile department or motion on a juvenile court; and
(d) At the time of notice of execution of an expunction order. [1993 c.33 § 50; 1993 c.546 § 93; 1993 c.602 § 2; 1995 c.422 § 69; 1999 c.97 § 4; 1999 c.111 § 1; 1999 c.626 § 17; amendments by 1999 c.626 § 40 repealed by 2001 c.884 § 1; 2001 c.884 3b,3d; 2007 c.867 § 8; 2009 c.783 § 7; 2013 c.708 § 27; 2015 c.320 § 2; 2019 c.635 § 22; 2021 c.585 § 5]